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Bill	State of emergency: local emergency: planned power outage.	Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the terms "state of emergency" and "local emergency" to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state or the territorial limits of a local government caused by, among other things, a sudden and severe energy shortage.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 52	California SB 52 (20212022)	bill	State of emergency: local emergency: planned power outage.	enacted	Dodd	6	27	5	2020-12-07	2021-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/5991f7c9-67f0-4624-bedc-a0f5877a9826	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB52	c4cc71e0d1b5498cd44f8141943cb0f3cbd2a5d8cb58761b8d88267dab3ec83e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 52 (20212022) — State of emergency: local emergency: planned power outage.

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain powers in response to that emergency. Existing law defines the terms "state of emergency" and "local emergency" to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state or the territorial limits of a local government caused by, among other things, a sudden and severe energy shortage.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/26/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB52 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB52 Dodd et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB52 Dodd et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 52 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-12-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-02-25 Set for hearing March 9.
• 2021-03-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 420.) (March 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2021-03-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-12 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-12 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-04-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 971.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2021-06-25 June 28 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-07-06 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-07-12 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
• 2021-07-12 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-08-26 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2565.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2278.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 597, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5991f7c9-67f0-4624-bedc-a0f5877a9826. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).